Table 4 summarises the informational sophistication of the aligned and not-aligned groups. The number of applications used in each firm were totalled, and then averaged over each group so that an independent-sample ttest could be performed on the difference of means. This was found to be highly significant at the 95% level. The
result implies that the two alignment groups are well separated based on the number of applications used, where firms in the aligned group use (on average) more applications than firms in the not-aligned group